Did it only cost £4.99 at first? (I assume that's not including postage.) It's £11.99 on their site at the moment. I suppose it's quite like their 2008 release, when they put out that H with the slipcase. It was pretty well made for a book costing only a fiver.

I know because I bought a couple more at a later stage (not sure why exactly - but they seemed good value at that price).

Postage was free. They do offers every now and again with discounts & free postage. And there is free postage with orders over a certain value. Think I got 10% off and free postage at the time, so actually only cost £4.50 (and then 5% cashback at one of those cashback sites bringing the price down a little further).

Okay, got the jacketed ("book club") copy in front of me. There is no indication anywhere (book or jacket) that it's anything other than a HarperCollins (trade) edition. In fact all the printed matter (copyright pg., etc) is the same; same sheets presumably. The jacket has the ISBN on it & (as remy says) a price (--& a barcode.)

It is, however, distinguishable from the jacketless copy by its boards; which are paper covered. (In the photo, pg. previous, that I posted --this is hard to discern.)

BH

Posted on: 2013/2/23 9:34

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